Music is by its very nature a mysterious phenomenon. The question of what drives people to make it (and what drives people to listen to it) has occupied philosophers, anthropologists and scientists for centuries. And it raises other questions, such as why do different people like different music? Why does one of my children like vaporwave while the other one likes Yann Tiersen? How is it that some artists become immensely popular while other similarly talented ones remain in relative obscurity?
Why, for example, aren’t The Little Unsaid as famous as Nick Cave or Radiohead? That question isn’t necessarily as flippant as it sounds. The band’s frontman, John Elliott, has a voice full of spine-tingling high notes and lovelorn eeriness…